Many organisations and recruiters believe there are only three true job interview questions that really matter. 1. Strengths: Can you do the job? Do you have the technical skills as…
Sales Team Compensation
Getting the most out of your sales team is vital if you are going to achieve your company's full potential. But it is not always easy. Sales people operate in…
Create a Culture of Learning
Warren Buffett and his lifelong investing partner Charlie Munger have a secret: they have always been good at lifelong learning, believing that it gives people and organisations an advantage over…
Beware of Hiring Your Competitor’s Sales People
Life would be grand if we could sprinkle a few seeds in the ground, fertilise, add water…and a great sales person would sprout. This is a pipedream, but one often…
A Note to the Sales Leader: They Are Not You
You were a great sales person. You were truly special. Selling came easy to you. You were born with the ability to create rapport. You like people and they like…
Results From Sales Onboarding
There’s a lot of buzz today around sales onboarding and sales enablement. You may be wondering if sales onboarding should be on your executive team’s priority list of corporate initiatives.…
Increasing Trust in Organisations
I was grocery shopping recently. It was midday and hot outside – and I was in the checkout line. The cashier had started sliding my purchases through the register, when suddenly I noticed a…
Pressure And Performance
There's a subtle relationship between pressure and performance. When people experience the right amount of pressure, they do their best work. However, if there's too much or too little pressure,…
Leading From Outside Your Glass House
Sales managers are always complaining that their sales people don’t read, don’t study and don’t work on improving themselves as sales professionals. This criticism is 100% valid. Most sales people…
Taking Ownership
Does your team believe that they can control the events that affect them? When employees assume personal ownership of their company’s results and accept responsibility for their own performance, they…